Browsing Master's Level Graduate Research Conference by Title

Whose Restoration Are We Working Towards? Understanding the Relationships of Place Attachment and Voice within Participatory Cleanup and Restoration Processes of Onondaga Lake

Tauzer, Erica (2013-04-20)

Erica Tauzer, M.S. in Environmental Studies, SUNY ESF Anticipated Completion: December 2013 Major Professor: Valerie Luzadis, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies The Onondaga Lake Experience: Understanding ...

“Who’s Leading Now? The Partnering of Dance Studies and Feminist Theories”

Zdrojewski, Julia (2013-04-20)

During the last decade of the twentieth century, there was a rush of ideologies and theories, discussed and applied to dance, shifting traditional dance history into dance studies. Of particular interest in this paper, is ...

Why Are Half of New York Finger Lakes Invaded by Cercopagis pengoi, While the Other Half Have Remained Non-invaded for Over a Decade?

Figary, Stephanie (2013-04-20)

The fish-hook flea, Cercopagis pengoi, is an abundant invasive zooplankton that invaded six of the eleven New York Finger Lakes in 1999, one year after invading Lake Ontario. Cercopagis is predatory, which could alter ...

William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Degeneracy in the New South

McCabe, Rachel (2013-04-20)

William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury established the stereotypes of Southern degeneracy that followed the Civil War’s Reconstruction period. Not only does the text’s fixation on time and human abnormality fit the ...

Women in STEM Fields: Does Mentoring Matter? A Review of the Literature

Ross-Winnie, Katheryn (2013-04-20)

Women are significantly underrepresented in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields at the college and professional levels. Starting in early education and continuing through graduate school, ...

Women's Transitional Housing: Outcomes and Effectiveness

Brennan, Melissa; Cherry, Raquel; Decker, Carly R.; Madigan, Ashley (2013-04-20)

In an effort to combat the prevalence of homelessness in the Greater Rochester community, programs like the transitional housing program operated by Sojourner House at Pathstone are critical. In order for such programs to ...

Work-family Capitalization: How Sharing Positive Work Events May Lead to Greater Perceptions of Work-family Enrichment and Associated Outcomes

Scott, Lindsay (2013-04-20)

This poster describes a research project that explored how discussing one's positive work events with responsive family members may contribute to greater perceptions of work-family enrichment in employees, and in turn, how ...